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Senior Engineer, Developer Platforms and Generative AI

The New York Times· Software Engineering
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Hybrid (New York, NY; Remote - USA)$140k - $180kfull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer on the DevEx Platforms team building GenAI-augmented developer experiences and platform capabilities across The New York Times, focusing on AI-assisted developer workflows, guardrails, observability, and platform modernization.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build GenAI-powered developer tooling: prompts, IDE integrations, Cursor/Claude rules, and telemetry to understand how they’re used.
  • Build and run the GenAI developer platform: Tools, services, and integrations leveraging LiteLLM to power both local and background/long-running agents, providing auth, configuration, and LLM routing.
  • Own guardrails and observability for agentic workflows: integrate with Datadog, DX, and FinOut, define sensible standards, and make sure agents interact with Jira, GitHub, and internal platforms in a safe, auditable way.
  • Work closely with engineers and managers across Product Engineering to understand how they build software today and to design solutions that actually fit the way they work.
  • Support our mission and values, including journalistic independence, and keep ethics and safety central to how we use AI in developer workflows.
  • This role includes limited on-call responsibilities; the schedule will be set when you join.
  • Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • 2+ years of experience improving developer experience through workflows, documentation, and capabilities of the internal platform
  • Experience designing and building cloud native applications. We use Golang
  • Hands-on experience building software using GenAI tools, like GitHub's Copilot, Cursor or Claude Code

Skills

Required:GenAI toolsCloud native development

Benefits

  • medical, dental and vision benefits
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
  • a company-matching 401(k) plan
  • employee stock purchase plan
  • paid vacation
  • paid sick days
  • paid parental leave
  • tuition reimbursement and professional development programs
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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